Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting. But the 9th is the only major U.S. unit in the heavily populated and strategically important delta, and one of the most efficient in the country, using such hit-and-run tactics as night raids and ambushes to rack up the highest kill counts of any allied outfit...
...most extreme of the fedayeen groups is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an outfit of perhaps 2,000 men that has taken credit for such spectaculars as the hijacking of one El Al airliner, the shooting up of two others, the bombing of the Tel Aviv central bus station and a Jerusalem supermarket, and the blowing up of the Aramco pipeline-its most recent exploit. It is led by left-leaning Dr. George Habash, 44, a Palestinian Arab from Lydda who long ago turned from medicine to the violent practice of Palestine politics. Last week...
Earnings Up. The campaign was the idea of TWA's adwoman, Mary Wells Lawrence, who also started the battle of the frills in 1965 when she persuaded Braniff to paint its planes pastel and outfit the stewardesses in original Pucci culottes. After she married Braniff President Harding Lawrence, it became obvious that the family relationship was too cozy for business. The conflict was resolved last summer when she won the TWA account and Braniff dropped her. Last week she announced that earnings of her agency, Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., rose 63% to $801,000 during the first half...
...rabid band of Welsh nationalists has been sounding off angrily ever since the announcement that Britain's Prince Charles would be formally named Prince of Wales this July 1. But the protests all seemed more bark than bite. Now nine Welshmen are on trial for organizing a paramilitary outfit called the Free Wales Army, and last week the court was told of a document found in the home of one defendant detailing plans to murder young Charles "if necessary" to prevent his investiture at Caernarvon Castle. Unmoved, Charles maintained his royal composure and went about his studies of Welsh...
Most recruits were given a few hours of training and shipped off to the nearest fire, but the BLM designated 50 of that morning's volunteers as a special "Hotshot" unit with the hope that a little more formal schooling would turn them into an elite outfit like the trained crews from native villages. The men were paid $45 a day and allowed to vegetate for a week at the smokejumper base under the guise of intensive training...